Currently, the options available are:
Commandline options (privmsg $botnick or typed in channel):
To look up a word, simply use : .dict <word>
To show only the word origin : .dict dcorigin <word>
To show only synonyms/antonyms: .dict dcsyn <word>
Script Configure Options:
# Channels where we allow public use
set dcomchans "#mychan #chan2 #etc"
# Channels that only respond via privmsg
set dcquietchans "#chan2 #etc"
# Timeout for geturl
set dcomtimeout "30000"
# If you want limit output, set the line-limit here
#(this will truncate results.) Set to 0 for no-limit.
set dclinelimit 0
# Show Word Origins when available? 1 == yes, 0 == no
set dcorigin 1
# Show Synonyms and Antynoms for words? 1 == yes, 0 == no
set dcsynant 1
Dictionary.com provides the following additional databases, which will be incorporated into this script:
American Heritage Dictionary
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
WordNet v2.0
American Heritage Steadman Medical Dictionary
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
Internet Jargon File
Wallstreet Words
Investopedia
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
I'd appreciate people testing the script and sending me words that produce errors (showing html codes or truncated results for example. Dictionary.com tends to use a LOT of unicode chars and short of adding thousands of them to the string map, I've been adding them as I see them.)
Keep in mind this is a preview of the script, the other databases are not yet incorporated, although the regexp's are in place (just need to finish them to format the results
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Check the url for updates, there will no doubt be many
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http://members.dandy.net/~fbn/dictcom.tcl.txt